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The Microscopists

The Microscopists is a podcast from Bitesize Bio and ZEISS Microscopy that takes you into revealing, entertaining, and personal meetings with the great microscopists of our time. Your host is Dr Peter O’Toole. Peter will help you understand what drives great, successful scientists, what really inspires them and what they enjoy most in life. This set of candid, fun, and engaging interviews serves not only to help inspire upcoming scientists but to show how career tracks and work-life balance are

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Rainer Heintzmann (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

The Microscopists ·

2021/01/29

#13 — You may know Rainer Heintzmann (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) as one of the pioneers of structured illumination microscopy (SIM) but here we delve more into the man behind the science, where we discover a breath of interests including gliding, skiing, dancing and 3D printing.Rainer’s undergraduate studies may have taken him a lengthy 6 years to complete, yet he transitioned from PhD student to group leader at King’s College London in just 5 years.While Rainer confesses he

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Eric Betzig (University of California)

The Microscopists ·

2021/01/22

#12 — This episode of The Microscopists was recorded LIVE with a very special guest - Eric Betzig!We already know so much about Eric, but I hope that our chat will reveal more about the man behind the many ingenious contributions to the world of microscopy, life sciences, and science in general.While Eric is well known for receiving the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with Stefan Hell and William Moerner for developing super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, you might be surprised to

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Petra Schwille (Max Planck Institute)

The Microscopists ·

2020/12/18

#11 — Petra is a dedicated high flyer that simply loves her work (and her music, for which there is little she cannot play to concert level!). We chat about how she was given very little PhD supervision but encouraged to simply explore.We also discuss her time in the USA before returning to Germany where she has become a Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.Not only high flying at work, Petra also has a head for heights that she reveals as we talk about raising and balancing

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Jeff W. Lichtman (Harvard University)

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2020/12/04

#10 — From Cajal to Google, networks to solve networks! Jeff is another person who simply does not stop innovating and exploiting new technology. In this podcast, he talks about the very first time he saw the Brainbow image, in a step by step manner that simply blew him away, through to his past inspirations and today’s motivations.New technologies come with larger and larger data sets, and he chats about how is now working with Google to help with the analysis.With an equal passion for

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Dan Davis (The University of Manchester)

The Microscopists ·

2020/11/20

#9 — What a time to chat with an immunologist! It makes a change to hear Dan talking about himself, how he developed his career, including the real motivation to becoming a Professor at Imperial at such a young age.Starting out as a Physicist, Dan made a remarkable and fast switch in careers to which he attributes much of his success. Sometimes a passion coupled with early naivety can be the perfect starting point.As well as being a passionate communicator and Dan also discusses balancing

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Lucy Collinson (The Francis Crick Institute)

The Microscopists ·

2020/11/06

#8 — Lucy Collinson has been at the forefront of 3D volume and correlated electron microscopy since setting up the internationally renowned facilities at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute and now the Francis Crick Institute. In this episode, Peter O’Toole discusses not only Lucy being a leading light in her field and her motivations, but uncovers some of Lucy’s more obscure passions. Not to give too much away, but surfing and being a dedicated Eurovision fan are just elements

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Hari Shroff (NIH)

The Microscopists ·

2020/10/23

#7 — Young, successful and still so disarming. In this episode, Hari Shroff reveals what it was like to work in the exciting area of Super-Resolution microscopy during its infancy, and discusses working in the early days of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus.Hari discusses his latest work and the efforts that go behind such a high impact publication while also talking about the advice and patience he needed when setting up his own lab. Unwittingly, Hari and

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Scott E. Fraser (University of Southern California)

The Microscopists ·

2020/10/09

#6 — It would be fair to say that Scott Fraser has influenced the microscopy community more than most. As the person behind the Meta detector, he made a massive impact on the microscopy community and is now seeing these adaptations being adopted in other fields again. But how did Scott find himself in such a position? It appears as though his coffee machine is the answer behind most inventions!This episode reveals just how personable Scott is, along with his natural humility. Scott also

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Ricardo Henriques (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência)

The Microscopists ·

2020/09/25

#5 — There’s no doubt that Ricardo’s career so far has been stellar. He’s moved up the career ladder at lightning speed, starting his own group in 2013, following only a brief postdoc, to holding a professorial position and starting another lab at IGC. This is especially impressive given that his original BSc was in physics! In this episode, Ricardo reveals how imposter syndrome can affect anyone, with his thoughts and feelings on his first day as a group leader at UCL. We also see

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Alison North & Kurt Anderson (Rockefeller & Francis...

The Microscopists ·

2020/09/11

#4 — Ever wonder how people end up working in a core facility? You are about to find out. In this show, Peter O’Toole welcomes Alison North from The Rockefeller University in New York and Kurt Anderson from The Francis Crick Institute in London. Alison, originally from the UK, now works in the USA, while Kurt is from the USA but now works in the UK. So there’s an interesting dynamic to this interview! Both Alison and Kurt are internationally renowned in the world of microscopy, but neither

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Jason Swedlow (The University of Dundee)

The Microscopists ·

2020/08/27

#3 — In this latest episode, Peter O’Toole chats to Jason Swedlow of The University of Dundee, whose open-source tools are revolutionising microscopy. While Peter has known Jason for many years, this was a great opportunity to find out more about Jason on a personal level including his decision to stop competitive road cycling through to his travels around the world.Taking a rest from being a leading jet setter, Jason is now enjoying lockdown and more time with his family while also still

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Tony Wilson (The University of Oxford)

The Microscopists ·

2020/08/27

#2 — Step into a brief history of how the confocal microscope came to be! Peter O’Toole chats with one of the pioneers of the confocal microscope - Tony Wilson from the University of Oxford.Wearing his cowboy hat and boots throughout the interview, Tony talks about his passion for cattle, his Jaguar and Yorkshire cricket, and how finding life scientists to try this ‘new’ technique was not as simple as you may now think.It is an intriguing insight into the trials and tribulations of

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Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (Howard Hughes Medical...

The Microscopists ·

2020/08/27

#1 — Join this informal chat between Peter O’Toole and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz of The Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Beyond kayaking to work and a passion for plants, Jennifer explains how she became interested in Biology from her time teaching in Africa, and how she was fortunate enough in her early career to work alongside some of the true giants of cell biology. Very few cell biologists have had so many major impacts on the field, and underpinning most of her work was the use of

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